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The Estonian company Ampler has announced the electric bicycles Nova and Nova Pro. Their main feature is that the built-in USB Type-C interface in the frame is used to recharge the battery, which can also be utilized to power various gadgets when needed. The electric bicycles Nova use relatively small built-in batteries of 48 V 336 Wh (removable only for […]
On March 5 and 20, the releases of versions 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 of the high-performance library Glaze, designed for reading and writing JSON, took place. CSV and BEVE formats are also supported. The library is written in C++ (header-only, C++23 standard) and is distributed under the MIT license. Change log: Customizable parameters at compile time – the structure glz::opts now contains only default options, while more […]
After a long hiatus, the developers of the Windows-compatible operating system ReactOS, whose source code is available under the GPL license, have released version 0.4.15. This release includes: Plug and Play fixes; audio stack fixes; memory management fixes; improvements to the registry; enhancements to system utilities, including Notepad, Paint, RAPPS, and Input Method Editor. ReactOS has been developed by a group of enthusiasts since 1998 […]
The release of shadPS4 version 0.7.0 has taken place. The shadPS4 project is a PlayStation 4 emulator with native support for Windows, Linux, macOS, and chromeOS. The emulator is written in Qt6 and C++ and is in the early stages of development. What's new compared to version 0.3.0: Added HDR support. Added FSR support (AI upscaling, i.e., AMD's DLSS). Added emulated support for processors, […]
The release of the console utility nvtop 3.2.0 has been announced, designed for interactive monitoring of GPU performance and hardware accelerators. The utility allows users to visually track loads, memory consumption, and changes in GPU frequency on graphs, as well as view processes that heavily load the GPU. It supports GPUs and accelerators from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Apple (M1 & M2), Huawei (Ascend), Qualcomm, and Broadcom (VideoCore). It is possible […]
After seven years since the last release and twelve and a half years since the publication of the 2.7 branch, the release of GNU patch utility version 2.8 is presented. The utility applies patches to files that include change lists created by the diff program. The code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv3+ license. In the new version: The year 2038 issue has been resolved – the utility now works correctly […]
The results of a study on the security of the isolated environment for executing Python code, used by Google in the Gemini chatbot, have been published. The Gemini chatbot provides tools for generating code based on task descriptions, and for Python, it allows for immediate execution of the created code, relieving the developer from unnecessary actions during testing. The code runs in an isolated environment, which is cut off from the outside world and allows […]
The developers of the openSUSE distribution have implemented the ability to parallelize the download of packages and metadata in the Zypper package manager. A new backend has also been proposed that more optimally reuses already established connections and increases metadata processing efficiency. When updating 250 packages with a total size of 100 MB, the download time after enabling the new backend and parallel mode decreased from 68.7 seconds to 13.1 seconds, and […]
The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 4.0.0 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. The CMake code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, functionality extension through modules, support for caching, and tools for cross-compilation, […]
GitHub has announced a limit of 100,000 repositories per user or organization account. The limit will take effect on April 28. Once the threshold of 50,000 repositories is crossed, a warning banner will appear for the owner, and a notification will be sent to the administrator's email. This change aims to prevent performance slowdowns in accounts with an excessive number of […]
A patch release of the Exim mail server 4.98.2 has been published, addressing a vulnerability (CVE-2025-30232) that may allow privilege escalation. It is not specified whether the vulnerability can be exploited remotely. The issue has been present since the release of Exim 4.96. Affected versions have been used in major distributions like Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04/24.10, openSUSE 15.6, Arch Linux, Fedora, and FreeBSD. RHEL and its derivatives are not […]
After 6 months of development, the release of the Linux distribution Zorin OS 17.3, based on the Ubuntu 22.04 package base, has been published. The target audience of the distribution is beginner users familiar with working in Windows. To manage the appearance, the distribution offers a dedicated configurator that allows the desktop to resemble various versions of Windows and macOS, and it includes a selection of applications similar to programs that […]